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Papua puffer/toby

Canthigaster papua

Photo by Elsa
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Field Notes

Description:

This small puffer fish is very similar to the Fiji spotted puffer. The blue spotted puffer has a brown body with electrical blue spots and a large black spot with a blue ring right below the dorsal fin. Like other pufferfish they gain propulsion with their dorsal and anal fin. This one was moving at high speed, as can be seen by the blurry background. Pufferfish feed on particles in the water column and also scrape algae and detritus off the substrate.

Habitat:

Coral reefs

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)

I think you may be right, I got it wrong, but on second google-glance I'm pretty sure its actually Canthigaster papua! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canthigaster_papua. It is too elongated to be C. compressa..
It looks a lot like my compressed toby sighting, Canthigaster compressa. They are really pretty all these guys. Check out mine :-) http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6273329
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PublishedJune 23, 2011

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